u/EnvironmentalDMG

Image 1 — 6 Win Streak with Blastoise / Victreebel to hit Master Ball!
Image 2 — 6 Win Streak with Blastoise / Victreebel to hit Master Ball!
Image 3 — 6 Win Streak with Blastoise / Victreebel to hit Master Ball!

6 Win Streak with Blastoise / Victreebel to hit Master Ball!

Started the day off with sporadic wins due to stuff like Meowscarada, Tsareena, or Sun Venusaur leads. The team feels pretty good, usually leading with Farig + Blastoise. Traditional start is Trick Room + Fake Out, then manual Rain Dance or Helping Hand + Water Spout. Against Arch Rain you do the same thing, but just going Helping Hand + Aura Sphere to take out the Arch, saving Basc for Sinistcha and Arch to Draco Meteor Dragonite. At first I tried the team with Mega Dragonite, but he doesn't play well with Trick Room or against Trick Room, and leaving myself even weaker to Sylveon, Floette, and Gardevoir made me feel I needed a poison type. Venusaur was okay, but then I didn't have a good option against Whimsicott Sun teams. So then I found myself with Victreebel, who with Innards Out gives me a great option into the teams that run Floette /Zard, as you can put it to sleep via Chlorophyll, or just Innards Out to go 1 for 1. Its also decent without Mega as people aren't expecting physical poison hits (Good against Bulletproof pokemon like Kommo or Chesnaught.) Manual rain Swift Swim Basc looks super wierd I know, though being able to surprise give Arch the ability to Electro Shot, as well as something useful to do against Kingambit. I can't stand the big toilet seat and manual non-prankster Rain is really good in this current meta thus we have so many rain setters. Talonflame is great when you expect Sneasler, Whimsicott, Gale wings lets you Water Spout Aero before he can move unless its Mega, at which point he just dies after he sets Tailwind. Wide Guard can get tricky, but Shell Smash lets Aura Sphere one shot it. Hard TR is tough as Torkoal is a cruel tortoise, and unless I read the exact time that they are setting TR, I may end up setting TR for them and then its just gg with proper play from the opponent.

u/EnvironmentalDMG — 7 days ago

Ever since that vid went up from CybertronVGC about that team he concocted that focuses on Archaludon + Sableye w/ Screens and Rain Dance, he gets 17 wins in a row and now I fight against it on the ladder all day all night long. If anyone is unfamiliar with the team, I recommend checking it out because the analysis of his gameplay alone is incredible. It runs a specially bulky Archaludon that uses manual Prankster Rain Dance from Sableye, screens to protect Archaludon even more, then just Electroshot's their way to victory. Garchomp and Sneasler can't break thanks to Stamina boosts, and Basculegion sits in the back waiting to Last Resorts you six feet under.

Pretty much any mon doesn't one shot through Reflect or Light Screen, though a Scrappy Kang can Fake out Sableye and then you can Light of Ruin. Typically you wouldn't want to run Kang with Floette as Sneasler is so ubiquitous in the format as a lead, but we have to do what we have to do to shut down this silly team. To support this, we can run Kingambit for the Basculegion (I think Heliolisk is a step too far for this), then run something like Aero and Aegislash for our Wide Guard supports. Not sure what to finish off with beside maybe a Mega Gengar or Mega Ttar to beat out Sun teams. Mega Gengar also plays nicely into Arch with Shadowball SpD drops, but I'm not completely sold.

Any other thoughts for a team that can sure fire beat this team without falling prey to the rest of the format super easily?

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u/EnvironmentalDMG — 22 days ago